A Friend's Celebration

A message from my sweet friend, to anyone who is struggling with addiction.

I want to share my celebration with you!!!!!Today is my anniversary/birthday!!!!25 years clean and sober today!!!!!!TWENTY-FIVE YEARS!!!!!!That's a really loooong time!!!I did it!!!!25 years...lolololGod is so
perfect and wonderful that when He removed that addiction in me, He did it so
complete that I have never had a desire to use again.The drugs have had no power over me at
all!!!GO GOD!!!I was talking to my Mom the other night, and
she was concerned that Kay revealing her addiction right now has "over shadowed" my wonderful
accomplishment.I told her that having
to walk through the beginnings of addiction recovery with Kay has made me
realize how strong the drugs are and how amazingly powerful God really is.He removed that addiction from me instantly
and completely in a less than a second and I remember now, by watching/helping
Kay, how hard that life was and how far down into the pits of hell I was
walking before I reached out to Him.He
brought this situation with Kay to light right now to remind me how very far I
have come and how strong a person I am.More
importantly, He also is showing me how perfect and glorious He is.He is showing me that even though I was
dancing with the devil and playing on Satan's playground that He loves me so
much He rescued me from that life, cleaned me up, dusted me off and loved me
into a beautifully blessed life without any kind of payment required and no
strings attached!!!All He has ever
asked of me is to let Him love me,let
Him bless me and let Him carry me through my life until it's time for me to
come home.He is such a beautiful God
and my heart is so full of love and joy and gratefulness for Him today that it
is leaking out of my eyes and rolling down my face!!!! lolol

So today I am celebrating... celebrating the
anniversary/birthday of my new life. Celebrating
the love and compassion that God has for us.Celebrating the fact that no matter how bad we screw up and how low we
go….. Our Creator will reach into the
darkest, ugliest, scariest corners of Hell and bring us into His light and love
us into His Peace and Joy.GO GOD!!!!!!!

The LORD bless thee, and keep thee:
The LORD make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee:
The LORD lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.
And they shall put my name upon the children of Israel, and I will bless them.
Numbers 6:24-27